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Erin Grand
Education
M.S., Data Science
Columbia University
New York, NY
2016 - 2014
M.S. Astronomy and B.S., Astronomy and Physics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
2014 - 2007
Tech Experience
Senior Data Scientist
Uncommon Schools
New York, NY
current - 2016
- Produced high-quality analytics work around student and staff data, including prediction models around student state exams, student enrollment, and staff recruitment.
- Lead 6+ group trainings on the R programming language for 10+ coworkers, created git training and policies to introduce git to team
- Automated manual state exam reporting process saving 6+ hours of processing time
Data Scientist
Crisis Text Line
New York, NY
2016 - 2015
- Built and shipped a new volunteer application that 7600 applicants used. Increased the completion rate from 40% to 90%
- Identified trainee drop-off times for trainers. Produced cohort reports of training metrics. Identified key differences among cohorts to provide trainers with new solutions
- Identified counselor churn as the most significant organizational priority and set up tracking, reporting, and analysis of key metrics
Data Librarian / Software Engineer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
2016 - 2014
- Reformatted science data images to be compatible with WMS tile servers. Images are a part of the educational Science on a Sphere and NASA Earth and Space Observatory programs.
- Designed traveling Hubble Space Telescope exhibits’ new iPad kiosks using HTML, JavaScript, and Kiosk Pro
Research Experience
Research Assistant
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
2014 - 2011
- Researched the formation mechanisms of molecular pillars, such as the Eagle nebula’s Pillars of Creation
- Compared observations of high density gas to model predictions. Wrote IDL and Python scripts to process, analyze, and display the results
Summer Intern
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
2011 - 2010
- Performed analysis on raw data from the Swift observatory to produce a three-colored ultraviolet image of the Andromeda galaxy
- Image has been featured on Astronomy Picture of the Day twice since publication
- Developed bash shell scripts to manually set the aspect correction of images from the Swift satellite allowing the data to be used in further research